<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>History on Kandaka</title><link>https://kandaka.com/tags/history/</link><description>Recent content in History on Kandaka</description><generator>Hugo</generator><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://kandaka.com/tags/history/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>The Kandakat: Sudan's Ancient Queens and What They Built</title><link>https://kandaka.com/ideas/kandaka-nubian-queens/</link><pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://kandaka.com/ideas/kandaka-nubian-queens/</guid><description>The Kandakat — Nubia&amp;#39;s warrior queens — ran one of the ancient world&amp;#39;s most sophisticated economies: an iron industry that earned Meroe the title &amp;#39;Birmingham of Africa&amp;#39;, trade networks stretching from Rome to sub-Saharan Africa, and a state that negotiated with empires as an equal. Sudan is not a country learning development. It is a civilisation that was interrupted.</description></item><item><title>A History of Modern Sudan — Robert O. Collins</title><link>https://kandaka.com/development/history-of-modern-sudan-collins/</link><pubDate>Sun, 01 Sep 2024 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://kandaka.com/development/history-of-modern-sudan-collins/</guid><description>The most comprehensive English-language political history of Sudan from Muhammad Ali&amp;#39;s 1821 conquest through the post-independence era. Essential background for understanding how colonial and post-colonial institutional failures produced Sudan&amp;#39;s recurring development crises.</description></item></channel></rss>